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CONFEDEBATE   STATES  OF  AMESICA, 
Bureau  of  Conscription, 

Richmond,  March  24,  1863. 
CIRCULAR  ORDER. 

The  attention  of  officers  having  charge  of  conscripts,  is  directed 
to  section  2  of  the  act  of  congress,  approved  October  2d,  1862,  which  is 
as  follows : 

Sec.  2.  That  if  any  person  who  has  been  or  is  about  to  be  enrolled  for  service  in 
the  army,  shall,  at  any  time  before  being  asMgned  to  any  company,  declare  to  the 
enrolling  or  commanding  officer  that  he  prefers  being  enrolled  for  service  in  the 
navy  or  the  marine  corps,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  officer  to  enroll  such 
person  for  the  service  which  he  may  prefer,  and  to  transmit  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Navy  a  list  of  the  persons  so  enrolled. 

The  Superintendent  directs  that  this  provision  of  the  law  be  observed, 
and  that  reports  be  made  accordingly. 

Whenever  any  officer  of  the  navy,  designated  by  the  Navy  department, 
shall  present  himself  for  the  purpose,  any  officer  in  charge  of  conscripts 
will  cause  them  to  be  mustered  in  presence  of  such  officer  of  the  navy, 
in  order  that  they  may  be  oflFered  the  alternative  of  entering  the  naval 
service. 

By  order  of  Brig.  Gen.  G.  J.  Rains,  Superintendent. 

A.  C.  JONES, 

Lt.  Col,  A.  A.  G. 


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